Mary Ann Burnett | Plantae utiliores; or illustrations of useful plants, 1842–1846, 4 volumes

Mary Ann Burnett

Plantae utiliores; or illustrations of useful plants. London: Whittaker & Co., 1842–1846

FIRST EDITION, 4 volumes, 4to (275 x 210mm.), 254 hand-coloured lithographed plates (only, of 260), nineteenth-century green half calf, one plate and text leaf damaged with loss, lacking one label; sold as a collection of plates not subject to return

LITERATURE:

Great Flower Books, p. 53; Nissen BBI 305

PROVENANCE:

Sir John Tomlinson Brunner (1842-1919, chemist, founder (with Ludwig Mond) of Brunner Mond, later ICI), armorial bookplate